Course Offerings for 2017/18

All classes are held at the Brantford campus. The following course information is provided for your convenience. Schedules are subject to change and should be checked on LORIS, where location information can also be found. Full, official academic information, including prerequisites and exclusions, can be found on the academic calendars.

﻿If you would like to take a course for which you are missing a prerequisite or are in the wrong year level or major, you will have to complete the User Experience Design Override Form. Filling out the form does not guarantee entry into the course.

If no faculty member is named, the instructor is to be announced.

Unless otherwise stated, all courses are 0.5 credits.

100-Level Courses

UX100: Design Thinking I: Foundations

This course is an introduction to the theories and methods that underpin design thinking and practice. UX100 introduces the design process, visual analysis, design theories, universal design, and the socio-cultural implications of design. Students investigate the interactions between humans and their natural, social, and designed environments where purposeful design helps determine the quality of those interactions. Students will learn how design outcomes, whether successes or failures, shape and are shaped by socio/cultural and historical factors. Students of design thinking will learn to critically assess the processes, outcomes and effects of design engagement. During the course, students will have opportunities to test and explore the concepts of design thinking through small-group, hands-on participation in design projects.

Fall 2017

W 1 - 3:50 p.m., Abby Goodrum

UX/JN103: User Experience Design: an Introduction

This course provides an overview of user experience design principles and processes from a broad multidisciplinary perspective, emphasizing how user research and prototype assessment can be integrated into different phases of the design process for a wide array of products, services, and media content. The course introduces students to methods used to understand user's needs and activities, with a focus on conveying user-centred design solutions through storytelling, sketching, and iterative prototyping. Students are given real world design problems.

Winter 2018

T 1 p.m. - 3:50 p.m., Abby Goodrum

200-Level Courses

UX204: Digital Technology Lab

This course introduces students to basic computer and digital media concepts in hardware, software, and networking. Widely used applications including word processing, spreadsheets, databases, presentation, and web development software are studied and students are introduced to their academic portfolio platform as they learn how to manage digital media files across multiple platforms in order to create and maintain a professional portfolio.

Fall 2017

R 8:30 - 11:20 a.m., Jose Mathew Puthiakunnel

UX211: Graphic Design Studio I

Graphic Design Studio I introduces students to formal, perceptual, symbolic and technical aspects of visual communication. Students explore graphic design concepts including: typography, image, form, colour, proportion and space. This course provides an introduction to the design of both 2 and 3 dimensional projects as well as the practice of design critiques.

Winter 2018

W 11:30 a.m. - 2:20 p.m.

300-Level Courses

UX/JN303: Research in User Experience Design

The focus of this class is to familiarize students with the multidisciplinary methods used by User Experience (UX) designers to understand user needs and behaviours, and to evaluate the usability of systems, products and services. Students are introduced to key issues and practices in UX research, including procedures, resources needed, appropriate uses, benefits, and costs. They explore UX research designs including experimental and non-experimental, as well as quantitative and qualitative research methods.